The Mountebanks is a comic opera in two acts with music by Alfred Cellier and a libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It was first produced at the Lyric Theatre, London, on 4 January 1892, for a run of 229 performances. It also toured extensively and had a short Broadway run in 1893 and American tours. The original cast included Geraldine Ulmar, Frank Wyatt, Lionel Brough, Eva Moore and Furneaux Cook. The New York cast included Hayden Coffin and Lillian Russell. The work has been only sporadically revived since the First World War, although the Lyric Theatre Company of Washington D.C. recorded it in 1964.
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